Fragments of Noir

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Dark Reflections #49

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Angel Heart

Memento

Basic Instinct

Cape Fear (1962)

Croupier

Dementia

Leaving Las Vegas

Detour

Devil in a Blue Dress

The Servant

Taxi Driver

Time Without Pity

Le Samourai

Les Diaboliques

Vertigo

Raging Bull

The stuff you never have enough of. Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for. It's the stuff that has has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented, simply because there's too little of it.

Detour
Edgar G Ulmer
1945

Tuesday, 9 June 2026

The Soft Berth

Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, ruthless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

Budd Schulberg
Harder they Fall
1947

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